Category Archives: Social engineering

“It is not helpful or polite to accuse a whole religion or a whole race of general misconduct, bad attitudes or anti social approaches. It is wounding to many members of that group who may themselves be decent and law abiding, and who not share the bad characteristic ascribed to the group. I do not extend the same degree of protection to my own groups – white, male, Conservative!”

If it is wounding to many members of a group who may be decent and law-abiding to generalise negatively, then it surely follows that the same can apply to white, male Conservatives. There are many white males who have been unfairly discriminated against, through no fault of their own, resulting in their not being considered for jobs for which they are eminently suitable, for which they have worked very hard. Also, white males have been egregiously discriminated against by family courts – for no valid reason. The list of unfair discrimination against white males, for PC reasons is endless.

There is no validity in political correctness. It is social engineering, whichever way you look at it, and it is not conservative and not fair.

If politicos want to change the culture of a society, then it is far preferable that those in power set an example. For example:

Politicos want people to take more responsibility for their lives and the actions they take? Well then, ensure that QUANGO bosses, civil servants, politicos and all manner of people (who like to tell us what to do) resign when found wanting. E.g., various NHS chiefs, social services and police bods, of Rotherham fame.

Politicos want to stop benefits cheats? Well then, ensure that the Dennis McShanes and Maria Millers of this world can’t get away with claiming what they will, with impunity.

Politicos want people to stop smoking and drinking so much? Well how about stopping the public subsidy of Westminster alcohol and cigarettes?

I could go on, and on, and on …

The trouble is, once people in Westminster get a taste of power, they want to modify our behaviour and want us to subsidise their behaviour where, most often, their behaviour is far, far, worse than ours.

Cut the hypocrisy, clean up your own doorsteps, you politicos, and leave us the hell alone. I, for one, am heartily sick of the whole damned bunch in Westminster – politicos, civil servants, QUANGOcrats et al.

I want them all gone. They’ve been in place for too long and think they own us lock, stock and barrel.

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"The evils of tyranny are rarely seen but by him who resists it." -- John Hay, American Statesman and Dipolomat

“There's no way to rule innocent men. The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.” -- Ayn Rand

“In a government of laws, the existence of the government will be imperiled if it fails to observe the law scrupulously. Our government is the potent, the omnipotent teacher. For good or ill, it teaches the whole people by its example. If government becomes a lawbreaker it breeds contempt for law: it invites every man to become a law unto himself. It invites anarchy.” -- Justice Louis Brandeis

"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague." -- Marcus Tullius Cicero

When you see that trading is done, not by consent, but by compulsion- When you see that in order to produce, you need to obtain permission from men who produce nothing- when you see that money is flowing to those who deal, not in goods, but in favors- when you see that men get richer by graft and by pull than by work, and your laws don’t protect you against them, but protect them against you- when you see corruption being rewarded and honesty becoming a self-sacrifice- you may know that your society is doomed. -- Ayn Rand, 1958

"By a continuous process of inflation, governments can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens. By this method, they not only confiscate, but they confiscate arbitrarily; and while the process impoverishes many, it actually enriches some ... The process engages all of the hidden forces of economic law on the side of destruction, and does it in a manner that not one man in a million can diagnose." -- John Maynard Keynes, Economic Consequences of the Peace, 1920

Politicians are wordsmiths, most deriving from journalism, law and PR. Their craft is words. Those who believe what they say are fools. Judge them by what they do, not by what they say. -- Anon

The truth is incontrovertible, malice may attack it, ignorance may deride it, but in the end; there it is." -- Winston Churchill

"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible, make violent revolution inevitable." -- JFK, John F Kennedy, 35th US President